Continuing the upward trend in fresh Covid-19 infections, Haryana on Friday reported 6,277 positive cases, again the highest-single day spike since the outbreak of the virus last year.
Twenty more people died due to the virus in the last 24 hours in Haryana. The fresh infections have led to a huge jump in active cases which stood at 33,817 while the total caseload reached 3,42,077.
The death toll reached 3,354 in the State.
According to the State’s Health Department’s bulletin, three people died in Rohtak, two each in Panchkula, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Jind, Gurugram, Faridabad and one each died in Hisar, Karnal, Bhiwani, Fatehabad and Nuh.
Among Covid-19 patients, there were 503 critical patients in the State out of which 415 were on oxygen support while 88 were on ventilators.
A day before, the State had recorded 5,858 fresh infections and 18 deaths.
Gurugram district continued to be the worst affected in the State and recorded the highest number of fresh infections at 1,919 on Friday. Among other worst affected districts, Faridabad reported 980 fresh cases, Karnal 449, Sonepat 418, Panchkula 314, Hisar 288, Ambala 269, Kurukshetra 243, Sirsa 202, Rohtak 110, Panipat, 155, Jind 162, Yamunanagar 142, Jhajjar 148, Bhiwani 101, Fatehabad 103.
In Gurugram, the active cases jumped to 8,979, the highest in the State. There were 4,072 active cases in Faridabad, 2,839 in Karnal, 2,137 in Sonepat, 1,856 in Ambala, 1831 in Panchkula, 1,649 in Hisar, 1,359 in Panipat.
In the last 24 hours, 2,958 patients recovered from the virus taking the total recoveries to 3,04,906. The Covid positive rate has increased to 5.07 per cent while the recovery rate has declined to 89.13 per cent. The fatality rate was recorded at 0.98 per cent in the State. Over 67.65 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana.